Amazing facts from your area of expertise

benham wrote: Are you medic or a nurse Megatron's? I remember the Bristol chat well from my RN days.

I now work on sewage farms so I won't post any fascinating facts lol......

Regards,
Andy

:lol:

Staff Nurse, Andy ..... there's such a vast choice of interesting stuff we could post that I chose to keep it simple. :lol:

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You are extremely unlikely to survive a cranioectomy...

...ectomy means removal and cranio means head.

Nobrainer wrote: You are extremely unlikely to survive a cranioectomy...

...ectomy means removal and cranio means head.

OMG a Terrorist! :lol:

Leigh Ping wrote:

Nobrainer wrote: You are extremely unlikely to survive a cranioectomy...

...ectomy means removal and cranio means head.

OMG a Terrorist! :lol:

... or an executioner. :dry:

No, just another nurse.

1. Those orange phones you see on Motorways are known as "ETS" Phones, and are actually highly resiliant VoIP phones which auto-dial a nearby control room.

2. They have the dubious nickname of "Murderphones" in the business. Simply because the reason they were introduced was not to rescue broken down vehicles, but instead to avoid rape / killings of lone drivers on a motorway after they had stopped.

3. Despite people slowing down around "Traffic Officers" (think big 4x4 liveried vehicles), they dont care how fast you are going, nor can they pull you over even if they wanted to.

mogatrons wrote:

With my colostomy, I sometimes get a whole charts-worth in one bag: :yesnod: :sick:

Way too much information...

sniperpenguin wrote:
3. Despite people slowing down around "Traffic Officers" (think big 4x4 liveried vehicles), they dont care how fast you are going, nor can they pull you over even if they wanted to.

I speed past them for that very reason!! :drive:

Fully formed steam is invisible: what you see coming from a kettle spout is condensing vapour.

If you want to see steam, or rather where it is, take a look at the kettle spout when it's boiling: there will be a small gap between spout and vapour: that's steam!

Those who sell on energy dont actually make the kind of profit the general public are led to believe by the media

The deployment of smart meters for electric and gas - accessing 25 million homes throughout the UK in 6 years - is going to be the largest infrastructure project requireing access to homes undertaken in this nation, including the 70s mains gas network project